More than most of his flag officer peers, he understood how to navigate Washington politics and news media, helping him rise through the ranks and obtain resources he needed, although fellow Army leaders often resented what they saw as a grasping careerism.

It was their opinion, and that of all similar sects, that cœlestial powers were often incarnate and came from time to time to rule the earth, dæmon kings whose conception and aphanism were alike miraculous.

Stalyn, or make stale drynke, defeco.

Coordinate term: chanteuse